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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 23, 1999
Hendrikus Van Den Berg, Venlo-Blerick, NL;
Udo K{overscore (o)}nig, Essen, DE;
Klaus Dreyer, Essen, DE;
Volkmar Sottke, Mülheim, DE;
Hartmut Westphal, Dermbach, DE;
Widia GmbH, Essen, DE;
Abstract
Disclosed are a composite body and the production and the use thereof. It consists of a substrate body with a single- or multilayer coating, containing either Ti, Zr, Hf, V, Nb carbides, nitrides, carbonitrides and/or Ta and/or Al,O,or ZrO,. In order to improve the characteristics of wear from chip removal or another form of abrasion, the invention suggests that a layer of Zr, Hf, V, Nb, Ta or Cr carbonitride be precipitated either directly upon a layer of Al,O,— or ZrO,— or upon a thin intermediate layer of ZrC or ZrN up to 0,5 &mgr;m, or upon a TiN layer up to 0.1 &mgr;m, or indirectly upon a layer of Al,O,— or ZrO,—.